Read along to practice your English and to learn the English phrases RECIPE FOR DISASTER and DISASTER STRIKESIn this English lesson, I wanted to help you learn the English phrase "recipe for disaster." Now, a disaster is a really bad thing that can happen and a recipe is something you use when you bake something or make something in the kitchen. So a recipe for disaster is a situation where everything is just going wrong and something really bad is going to happen. Here's a good example. Let's say you have a really old car and that car has tires that needed to be replaced a long time ago and the car also is not very good mechanically. We would say that's a recipe for disaster because the tires aren't good and the car's just not in good shape, there's a really good chance that you're gonna go in the ditch or have an accident. So a recipe for disaster is a situation where a few things make it so that you just know something bad is gonna happen.WANT FREE ENGLISH LESSONS? GO TO YOUTUBE AND SEARCH, "BOB THE CANADIAN"#englishteacher #englishlessons #speakingenglish #bobthecanadianThe second phrase I wanna teach you today is the phrase "disaster strikes." When you say in English that disaster strikes, it's the point when something bad really happens to you. You could say, "I was driving down the road and then I was worried because the tires were bad that disaster might strike." So again, when disaster strikes, it's when something really bad happens. It's the exact moment when that bad thing happens. I don't think disaster is going to strike today. I think the only small disaster that might happen today is I came outside with no gloves on and it's colder than I thought.Anyways, to review, a recipe for disaster is when there's a few things that are happening that together might cause something really bad to happen, something we would call a disaster. And when that disaster happens, you would describe the moment that it happens by saying, "Disaster has struck," or, "Disaster strikes."Hey, let's look at another. Let's look at a comment from a previous video.Sorry, I got distracted 'cause a car was pulling into my driveway but they're turning around now. I don't know if you can see them way over there and they're going in a different direction. I think they were just using my driveway to turn around. Now my camera's a little bit off kilter. There we go.Let's look at a comment from a previous video. This is from Roberto and Roberto says, "If you hire me and let me be your sidekick, I promise I will bring something good to the table and I will pull my weight. I am no slacker." And my response was, "I'm glad to hear you aren't a slacker.Slackers definitely don't pull their weight." So Roberto's using a couple of phrases there. The phrase "to bring something to the table" and the phrase "to pull my weight." And then he uses a word that some of you maybe don't know and that word is slacker. In English, if you call someone a slacker, that you are saying that they are lazy, you are saying that they aren't pulling their weight, if you wanna use the phrase from the other day as well. Slackers are not enjoyable people to work with. When you work with a slacker, you're often frustrated because you're working really hard and the person who is a slacker is not working very hard at all.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/bobthecanadian)